They say ignorance is bliss, they’re wrong
FRANZ KAFKAThe meaning of life is that it stops.
More Franz Kafka Quotes
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I am dirty, Milena, endlessly dirty, that is why I make such a fuss about cleanliness. None sing as purely as those in deepest hell; it is their singing we take for the singing of angels.
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Youth is happy because it has the capacity to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
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Most men are not wicked, They are sleep-walkers, not evil evildoers.
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I need solitude for my writing; not ‘like a hermit’ – that wouldn’t be enough – but like a dead man.
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I am free and that is why I am lost.
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In man’s struggle against the world, bet on the world.
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Please — consider me a dream.
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Evil is whatever distracts.
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Forget everything. Open the windows. Clear the room. The wind blows through it. You see only its emptiness, you search in every corner and don’t find yourself.
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Love is, that you are the knife which I plunge into myself.
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He was a tool of the boss, without brains or backbone.
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I dream of a grave, deep and narrow, where we could clasp each other in our arms as with clamps, and I would hide my face in you and you would hide your face in me, and nobody would ever see us any more
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I cannot make you understand. I cannot make anyone understand what is happening inside me. I cannot even explain it to myself.
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In a way, you are poetry material; You are full of cloudy subtleties I am willing to spend a lifetime figuring out. Words burst in your essence and you carry their dust in the pores of your ethereal individuality.
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We photograph things in order to drive them out of our minds. My stories are a way of shutting my eyes.
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